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Throughout the late 80's and into the 90's, British author Brian Lumley wrote a series of horror/sci-fi novels about Harry Keough, famed writer and sometime employee of a special branch of the British government who could, among other things, speak to the dead, teleport, and would later become a lusty vampire over the course of five novels. Deliriously violent, overwritten, and a little bizarre in its handling of sex, Lumley nonetheless wrote a series of compulsively readable novels about a man who lived (and died, and lived again) for the dead.

Lumley's novels--hammered out at something like one a year in both the main series and in new collections and expanded stories, tells the story of Harry Keogh, called "the Necroscope" by both the living and the dead for his ability to communicate with the other side. The stories were a curious mix of Soviet espionage, serial killer thriller, hard sci-fi involving the intersection of magic and math, and gradually, transdimensional vampire stories.

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